Sanitation Signs Off on Sandwich Boards

I'm fine with the boards if they're next to the restaurant but don't like it when they're out in the middle of the sidewalk blocking traffic.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 10:01 AM

I could go for some unlimited mimosas for 9.95, fer sher.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 10:20 AM

Strange that they would go after sandwich boards but ignore all the hardware stores and 99 cent places that use the sidewalk to display merchandise.

Some advice to the business owners: Sometime a little sugar goes a long way. Who knows what a free cup of coffee will get ya.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 10:31 AM

I've seen the sandwich board jutting too far out into the sidewalk in front of Biscuit before, or placed on the sidewalk near the curb which is a space designated for WALKING not for advertising. Putting the sandwich board near the curb is something a lot of merchants or restaurants do. The sidewalks of Park Slope are too narrow for the increased foot traffic already, much less with all the junk some merchants put out, or these sandwich boards.

Sometimes especially on 7th Ave the pedestrian foot traffic on the sidewalks is as dense as you find in Manhattan, but with 1/2 the width of sidewalk. As much as we miss the fab amenities in our new neighborhood after moving away from PS, I'm also thankful I'm not feeling trapped in a slow moving cluster everywhere I walk! Like I find myself whenever I'm shopping in PS on weekends. I think PS residents as a community should encourage Sanitation Dept in this, and be urging businesses to find alternatives to sandwich boards promote their wares.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 10:45 AM

i've never had a problem with these boards on 7th avenue, nor have i ever had a problem with foot traffic on 7th avenue being too dense.

oftentimes in manhattan, it will be so dense that i'll go into the street to walk and that has never been the case for me in ps.

this is a city.

to those who want to be the only person walking down the street, move to croton.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 10:55 AM

Ah yes, the ubiquitous Park Sloper at 10:55 refusing to admit there is even one single downside to living in Park Slope.

There is a downside to EVERY neighborhood. Every one! Even the very best one in the whole entire world. Jeez. Nobody was saying they hate Park Slope, 10:55. It's not a personal attack on you. Take your happy pills now.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:01 AM

Sweet mother of god, NYC Sanitation sucks. SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSS. Hate those incompetent, venal, small-minded assholes. The worst city agency I've ever encountered anywhere.

They will literally spend 15 minutes tearing open our garbage bags looking for contraband, fail to reclose the bags properly, causing litter to fall out of them, and then half the time fail to take them away entirely. The collectors usually walk about 30 feet behind the truck, attempting to hurl the bags all the way from the sidewalk, not caring about the ones that miss or break open.

Guest 10:31, you want me to give these shitheads a cup of coffee, hang out, shoot the shit? Please--when they bother to show up at all, they have no interest in hanging out with the citizens they're supposed to be serving. The only thing they seem to enjoy doing is writing phony tickets. Maybe if you slipped them a hundred bucks, they might start DOING THEIR DAMNED JOB with some measure of energy and caring.

Fuck you, NYC Dept. of Sanitation. You betray your city every day.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:02 AM

10:55 here.

plenty of things wrong with park slope.

just not the sandwich boards on 7th avenue.

don't be jealous you were priced out.

it's not becoming.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:08 AM

In fact, I complimented the "fab amenities" in Park Slope in my post, 10:55.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:08 AM

anyone who says "fab" is not so fab.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:10 AM

We already owned a $600,000 place in Park Slope, 11:08.

We sold it to buy a house and yes, couldn't afford $3 million as required in Park Slope. I admit it! Rake me over the coals. But then of course, most the population can't afford a $3 million house. So it doesn't make me feel insecure to say we can afford "only" a $1.2 million house. Unlike the degree of insecurity you yourself are exhibiting.

Thanks for proving we made the right choice to leave. We miss the amenitites but not the elitist snobs, that's for sure.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:13 AM

@11:02 If was writing tickets I go out of my way to give you one. There is nothing better than seeing an angry white man loose his mind when he is reminded once again he does not control the world.

No one like for anyone else to make their jobs more of a pain in the ass, so try acting like a human being instead of some angry burnout Park Sloper who thinks the rules don't apply to them and can't handle day to day life in the city.

What a douche!

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:15 AM

i bought my place in park slope last year and it sure as hell didn't cost 3 million.

if that's the kind of house you need to be happy, clearly you are the one with some issues.

i'm glad to have one less "fab" person out of park slope.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:17 AM

Actually the retro terms and phrases others have given up, are totally cool. If you only know what to say what everybody else is saying NOW right this moment, you're not cutting edge. Just an imitator.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:17 AM

fab is not retro.

fab is what paris hilton says when she's talking about what guy she screwed last night.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:19 AM

I love it how someone says that they've never had a problem with sandwich boards or foot traffic, and someone else AUTOMATICALLY (and ignorantly) turns it around and says that person is saying there's nothing wrong with Park Slope.

Just because YOU had a problem with the sandwich boards (which it seems most people think the idea of ticketing them is IDIOTIC) does not mean you are the last word on the matter.

Of course there is good or bad to every neighborhood. 10:55 NEVER said otherwise.

So yes, it would seem you are slightly bitter about leaving the neighborhood. Otherwise you would never have attacked the person for considering Park Slope the Holy Grail of neighborhoods.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:25 AM

A Paris Hilton reference? Please, 11:19. I don't even need to provide a retort. You are proving absolutely everything I say in every comment you post.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:28 AM

fab=jurassic

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:31 AM

Yeah, you're right. Most elistist snobs in Park Slope I know talk about Paris Hilton at every dinner party.

Gosh, you're smart.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:32 AM

FAB = MIND OF A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL!

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:33 AM

Actually, you have it all wrong, 11:25.

As described in Brownstoner's post about this issue:

"A rash of ticketing by the Sanitation Dept. recently threatened business as usual for a number of restaurants and stores on brownstone Brooklyn’s major commercial thoroughfares."

RECENT RASH of tickets. That means people in the community around these businesses were complaining. This is a new initiative.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:39 AM

That wasn't the point, 11:39, but nice try.

I still don't see how 10:55 differing opinion from yours states anywhere that Park Slope was perfect.

You should be a politician.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:42 AM

All you crazed Park Slopers won! I'm leaving the thread. OOOOH my tail between my legs. Actually, I'm leaving feeling thrilled I don't have you as my neighbors.

What kind of psycho bothers to argue in such an angry way, just because someone pointed out the sidewalks of Park Slope were crowded on weekends?

Like nobody knows that about Park Slope. Like it's such a bad thing to say. It means people LIKE your neighborhood and like to visit it you retards. It's actually a compliment, and I never said anything bad about Park Slope at all until you started going batshit attacking me.

Totally insane.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:43 AM

"Totally insane."

finally, we agree on something.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:47 AM

now i'm hungry for a sandwich.

can't wait till 'snice opens.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:48 AM

"I'm leaving feeling thrilled I don't have you as my neighbors."

Why is that?

Because ALL of your neighbors are PERFECTION?

"and I never said anything bad about Park Slope at all until you started going batshit attacking me."

you just did.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:50 AM

sandwich boards are an outdated technology.
they should be using a kiosk pole with a triangular board arrangement on top so you have 2 faces showing for sidewalk traffic at adult eye level.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:51 AM

I was in Croton last week and there were two other people on the sidewalk with me. I fucking flipped out!

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 12:02 PM

these sandwich boards get in the way of my big stroller.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 1:06 PM

If these businesses were smart, they'd pay stroller moms to advertise on their bugaboos. That would really get the word out and would give the ladies a little "walking around money," so they wouldn't have to ask their hedge fund manager husbands for an allowance!

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 1:30 PM

11:02 here. To Guest 11:15, who wrote:

"@11:02 If was writing tickets I go out of my way to give you one. There is nothing better than seeing an angry white man loose his mind when he is reminded once again he does not control the world."

You're the douche, dragging the irrelevant issue of race into a conversation about the lousy job Sanitation does in Brooklyn. Last I checked, ALL the citizens of NYC deserved to have their garbage picked up properly. And, since you brought it up, while I am white, and am angry (at Sanitation), the lazy-ass Sanitation patronage workers who "work" my block are white, too--not that that has anything to do with anything.

What: Are you a Sanitation worker yourself? You dig leaning on your shovel at the expense of hardworking taxpayers? Or do you just think it's okay for them to provide this lousy level of service? Either way, you're a tool.

And while it's also not relevant, I do not live in Park Slope. Bed Stuy, do or die, thanks.

Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 3:00 PM

why du u hate retards

Posted by: guest at January 12, 2008 9:26 PM